29 Apr
2001
29 Apr
'01
16:13
I've mailed Miles Berry to express my interest in this idea, but discussion seems to be taking off here too, so I'll chip in: Clearly the hardest parts of this are the data modelling and database design. We've already had one offer of a Free database schema, and perhaps working towards that would be a good way to start. (Is there a schema based on the DfEE 'Common Basic Data Set'? If not, maybe we should ask DfEE if it would support definition of a (Free) one?) I'll second the choice of PostgreSQL for the database engine, and mostly web-browser interfaces. However, I wouldn't exclude the possibility of writing special clients if functionality required it (and I'd write them in Tcl/Tk, for portability). Bob Gautier Ateb Limited